by The Zlatan Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:38 pm
Scott_LFC wrote: The Zlatan wrote:Rodgers has spoken a few times about the team spirit and what not and you'd think it's something he plans on keeping intact. I think it's a huge risk to bring in a player like Balotelli who is renowned for his bad behaviour, someone who has been branded 'unmanageable' by Arsene Wenger and more importantly Jose Mourinho and Roberto Mancini, heck, he even ended up having a fight in training with the latter. Oh, and a fight with a team mate at one point, too. Not to mention the plethora of other crazy shit he has done outside of football. To bring in a player like that could easily divide a dressing room, he could become really good friends with young Raheem and bring out the worst in him, then you have two players that'll under perform because of their escapades. And from that it can easily grow, some players will get really unhappy, some won't play to the ability they are capable of because of it, the results stop going your way, you fall down the table a couple of places, things get worse and then Rodgers gets sacked for under performing. It seems like a reasonable scenario to me.
It's okay though because he might throw money out of his car window again while he drives around Liverpool and help 67% of the population out of poverty.
Not sure if serious..
1. We already had a player who was renowned for being trouble. Luis Suarez. Rodgers was able to keep him tame for a whole season. As soon as he was out of Rodger's reach, he went back to biting people. Also, what Luis Suarez did last Summer (beg for a move to Arsenal) is something that could have divided the dressing room, too, but it didn't, so I see no reason why Balotelli would cause it to happen. Baloteli didn't divide the dressing room at City. In fact, he won a Premier League with them. He hasn't divided a dressing room anywhere he's been, so what makes you think he will suddenly divide the Liverpool dressing room?
2. Being branded as unmanageable by previous Managers is only going to look hilarious in hindsight, when Rodgers gets the best out of Super Mario.
3. Balotelli's off-the-pitch escapades are overhyped. He said in an interview that some of the things he reads about himself is entirely untrue, and the stuff that's true is often exaggerated quite largely.
4. Your "reasonable scenario" is fucking hilarious
That is clearly not going to happen. Rodgers doesn't take any shit. If Balotelli plays up, he'll be dropped. Suarez was made to train on his own when he disrespected Liverpool in the press and would only be let back into the group after apologising to everyone. Also, it's come to light that there will be behavioural clauses in the contract.
There are huge differences between Suarez and Balotelli. Suarez has been cast by Liverpool fans to be a beacon of light, hand crafted by God himself, an upstanding family man that named his daughter Delfina, an anagram of Anfield (YNWA). Balotelli is like a child whose parent would try and blame his bad behaviour on him being an undiagnosed sufferer of ADHD. Except he is his own parent, further justified by his constant victimhood (JFT96). Keeping Suarez 'tame' should never have been a problem, Balotelli on the other hand, well, we'll find out soon enough.
This transfer stinks of Brandan trying to buff his own ego.
